Sermo a to dipole their Spirittml condition ? Sox thy foul r oh then for an infallible evidence of Gods love I oh then that thou mightett know whether God will pardon thy fin, and fave thy foul ! oh dreadful cafe ! when thou comet to die , and Confcience }hall accufe thee for thy floath , when thou fee!ett thy fpiric begin to fail, and apprehendca thy felf near the grave, and Confcience rageth, and is not at peace, becaufe thou doff not know whether thou (halt go, to Heaven or Hell. It is dreadful,doleful, fad, to hear thefe complaints from a dying man : oh woe is me, that I mutt take my farewel of all my friends, and death is impatient of delay, and yet I cannot fay my fins are pardoned t oh wo is me,though I lie a dying, I cannot fay my fins are pardoned ! within a little while my body mutt be carried frutti my Bed to my Grave ; but oh it breaks my heart that I cannot tell whether my foul, my precious (and yet too much neglected) foul dull be carried to Heaven by holy Angels ? or dragged down to Hell by turfed Devils ! oh that God would grant me a month or two, a little longer, that I may work out my falvation ! But thy Confcience ().311 tell thee,thou hada tirne,but thou didft mif -pend it ; thou badil it, hut thou didft not improve it in getting this grand queftion refolved, Whe- ther thou hadf} made thy peace with God. Confider now how dreadful it will be, when Confcience is awakened, and thou in this cafe unre- folved. 7. if thou be a true Chriflian,yet herein doff thou not act too much like the carelefs ungodly World ? they take no care to make fure of Heaven, and wilt thou jultifie their praólïce, and harden them in it ? There are fome carnal ones in the family ; a carnal husband, or a car- nal wife, or ungodly children, or gracelefs fervants, that mindes not God, nor care for their fouls, that look not after Heaven ; jad wilt thou be guilty of incouraging them. in their.carelefnefs, and hardening them in their forgetfulnefs of God, by thine own rem :trends ? but if thou wall ferious in the ufe of means,prefiing,following hard after God, thy ftriclncfs might fhame them out of their wickednefs, and might re- fle& upon themfelves, if fuch a one that lives fo circun.fpectly, and ta- keth fuch pains in duties, and yet doubted:, and fears, and would fain be refolved ; what a carelefs wretch am I,never to regard my own foul ; they are ignorant of God, and his excellency of Chrift,and his beau- ty ; of Grace, and its necefli-y ; and therefore defire them not, nor care to make fure of them ; but God bath opened thine Eyes, to fee all thefe. f tir up thy Pelf then to get a certainty of thine interelt in them. 8. Art thou not too much guilty of bypocrifie , when thou goeft ro the
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